Envelope Precedents

Multiple Projects

• Interested  Tectonic visualization
• Friendly Material 
• Can be used as particular  language for Container Design

Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects programmed robots to construct the undulating brick facade of this art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district.

Multiple Projects

• Interesting how  "brick" can be adapted 
• Different sizes with pre-conceived intentions
• Durability for Container envelopes and defiance of the standard application

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

Noumea, New Caledonia

"Erected in honour of the New Caledonian political leader assassinated in 1989, the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre pays homage to Kanak culture and draws on local building traditions and expertise by intertwining the ancient and the modern."

• Innovative used of wood 
• Combination of Steel and wood as "monolithic" piece
• Great advantage application for Container to express some sort of vocabulary in a small or big scale projects
• Technological approach for envelope properties as far of container durability and compliance.

source: Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Retrieved from: http://www.rpbw.com/project/41/jean-marie-tjibaou-cultural-center/